Pratt Tribune Article 5/29/2012
The City of Pratt may be able to fund a number of projects and equipment purchases with federal grants if it can prove that more than 51 percent of the city’s residents are in the state’s low-to-moderate income bracket. The key to presenting regulators with such proof will be a survey that the city will distribute with the help of Great Plains Development of Dodge City. If too few Prattans return the survey, the statistical sample will not be valid.
“We’ll have to make a promotional effort to let people know the survey is coming,” City Manager Dave Howard told the City Commission. “They have to know it’s important.”
If the survey proves successful, the city will be able to use it for a number of years to help fund a variety of projects through Community Development Block Grants.
Individual surveys will be kept confidential.
